The Shia Holy Shrines and Religious Sites Authority in Iraq reiterated, Thursday 18th of May, its endeavours to stimulate religious tourism in cities embracing holy shrines and religious sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authority said in a statement received by Shia Waves Agency that it, “intensifies efforts to boost and encourage religious tourism in the holy cities where millions of pilgrims from all over world come to visit the holy shrines.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It elaborated that recently, “The authority has sent its employees to those cities to perform Ziarah and to encourage religious tourism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is worth mentioning that the holy cities in Iraq receive large numbers of pilgrims from Iraq and other countries around the year, which vitalize religious tourism and also enables the residents of those cities improve their economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Shia Holy Shrines and Religious Sites Authority in Iraq reiterated, Thursday 18th of May, its endeavours to stimulate religious tourism in cities embracing holy shrines and religious sites. The authority said in a statement received by Shia Waves Agency that it, “intensifies efforts to boost and encourage religious tourism in the holy cities where …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":93352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,31],"tags":[1331],"class_list":["post-93351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atabat","category-iraq","category-news","tag-holy-shrines"],"yoast_head":"\n